Bug procedures (**updated**)

[Gerk]

Hello everyone... just wanted to drop a note here about the procedures to follow when finding a bug in Gentoo PPC...

1) make sure you are running current portage (emerge rsync and try again first of all).. things move fast in Gentoo and the PPC tree especially right now

2) rm -rf /var/cache/edb/deps/* and try again (sometimes old deps get left there and cause problems)

3) if the problem still exists please file a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org (after searching if the bug already exists that is), following the bug reporting guidelines laid out on that site (similar to what I've just posted here).

4) Be Verbose!! Bugs like "this pkg is broken when I try to install it" is just not helpful. Any information that may be relevant about your setup, your USE settings, your machine configuration and kernel version, etc are extremely helpful

5) if making an attachment on bugs, please read how to do it (have gotten several attachments lately that were difficult to extract)

6) you can check in on IRC at irc.openprojects.net in #gentoo-ppc ... most times someone is around that might know what's going on

Thanks everyone for helping to make Gentoo PPC the best distro possible and happy Gentoo'ing all

[Gerk]

I would like to also add to this to make things simpler for everyone, if you are running a recent version of portage, please include the output of "emerge info" (no quotes) to all bug submissions